out into fweet Springs; and thefe empty themselves into the Rivers, which run commonly between the Hills, and from them receive conftant Supplies, whereby their Streams are inlarged.]

II All beafts of the field drink thereof: and the wild" affes quench their thirst.

12 Befide them fhall the fowls of the air have their habitation: and fing among the branches t.

13 He watereth the hills from above: the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.

14 He bringeth forth grafs for the cattle: and green herb for the fervice of men.

15 That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man: and oyl [to make him a cheerful countenance,] and bread to ftrengthen mans heart.

16 The trees of the Lord alfo are full of fap: even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted.

17 Wherein the birds make their nefts: and the fir-trees are a dwelling for the ftork.

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats: and fo are the ftony rocks for the conies.

19 He appointed the moon for certain feafons]: and the fun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou maketh darkness that it may be night: wherein all the beafts of the foreft do

move.

P 4

12 t Of the Trees that grew on the Banks of thefe Rivers.

anoint his Face or IS[Wherewith to Head.] See P. xxiii. 5.

19 [To diftinguish Time into Months and the Night, to divide Weeks, and for the a fcertaining Religious Feafts.] Mede on Rev xliii, 6, 7. xii. 1. See Ecclefiafticus

21 The

21 The lions roring after their prey do feek their meat from Godt.

22 The fun arifeth, and they get them away together; and lay them down in their dens.

23 Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour; until the evening.

24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works: in wisdom haft thou made them all, the earth is full of thy riches.

35 So is the great and wide fea alfo: wherein are things creeping innumerable, both fmall and great beafts.]

26 There go the fhips, and there is that Leviathan: whom thou haft made to take his paftime therein.

fter: Not the Craco-
dile, for that is an A-
nimal belonging to Rivers.
$7 [Depend.]

29 [When thou withdrawelt thy Bounty, they pine away and ficken.]

When thou fendeft forth thy enlivening Power, attended with thegentle and warm Breezes of the Spring,

37 Thefe [wait] all upon thee: that thou mayeft give them meat in due feafon.

28 When thou givest it them, they gather it; and when thou openeft thy hand, they are filled with good.

29 [When thou hideft thy face, they are troubled:] when thou takeft away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their duft:

30 [When thou letteft thy breath go forth, they fhall be made: and thou fhalt renew the face of the earth.]

new

new Animals are produced in great Plenty, and the Earth has a new and fresh Face.

31 The glorious Majefty of the Lord fhall endure for ever: the Lord fhall rejoyce in his works.

32 [The earth fhall tremble at the look of him: if he do but touch the hills, they fhall fmoke.]

32 [If God were not delighted in his Works, they must all foon va- ? nifh, for his angry Pre

fence will foon make

the Earth tremble, and break into fhivers, and fet on fire the strongest Mountains, and thereby confume them.]

33 I will fing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will praife my God while I have my being. 34 And fo fhall my words please him: my joy fhall be in the Lord.

35 As for finners, they fhall be confumed out of the earth, and the ungodly fhall come to an end praise thou the Lord, O my foul, praise the Lord.

Morning Prayer.

The Twenty First Day. 'Tis certain the former part of this Pfalm is David's. See 1 Chron. xvi. 8. and therefore it is probable, that the latter part was done by the fame Hand. It contains a rehearsal of God's Mercies to the Jewish Nation, from the time of Abraham, to their Settlement in the promifed Land.

Confitemini Domino. Pfal. CV.

Give thanks unto the
Lord, and call upon his
Name: tell the people what
things he hath done.

2 O let your fongs be of

la ban type19 cross i begy

34* His frength,] that is, the Ark focal led, becaufe by the Di vine Prefence over the

him, and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.

3 Rejoyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them rejoyce that feek the Lord.

4 [Seek the Lord and * his ftrength: feek his face evermore.]

Ark, the Jews were enabled to overcome their Enemies, 2 Chr.vi.41. [Come therefore devoutly before the Lord, who dwells in his Sanctuary, there endeavour to procure his Favour.]

5* The Judgments of his Mouth, the terrible Executions which he

did on Pharaoh and the Egyptians, according to the Sentence which he

7 [The Judgments which he executed on the Canaanites, Phili

ftines,&c. are, and fhall be, fpoke of throughout the World.]

10+ Testament. We ftill call the Holy Books that were written be

fore Chrift came, [The

Old Teftament: The

had

S 5 Remember the marvellous works that he hath done: his

*

wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

before paffed on them, Ex. iii.2. vii.4. 6. O ye feed of Abraham his fervant, ye children of Jacob his chofen.

7 He is the Lord our God: [his judgments are in all the world.]

8 He hath been alway mindful of his covenant and promife: that he made to a thoufand generations;

9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he fware unto Ifaac;

10 And appointed the fame unto Jacob for a law; and to Ifrael for an everlasting * tefta

ment.

fum and fubftance whereof is, that which is here called fo, viz: the Promifes made to Abraham, whereby, as Dr, Hammond expreffes it, they had a quiet and fecure enjoyment of the Promifed Land, bequeathed to them by God himself.

II Say

II Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance.

12 When there were yet but a few of them†: and they ftrangers in the land;

13 What time as they went from one nation to another: from one Kingdom to another people;

12 t Viz. Abraham and his Family, Acts vii. 4, 5.

Gen. xii, xiii, xx, xxix.

14 He fuffered no man to do Gen. xii, 16. xx. 3. them wrong: but reproved even kings for their fakes.

15 Touch not mine *anoint

:

ed and do my *prophets no harm.

Anointed. This word generally denotes a King; and Abraham is own'd to be a mighty

Prince by the Children of Heth, Gen. xxiii. 6. *Prophets.] God declares Abraham to be a Prophet, Gen. xx.7. 16 Moreover, he called for Gen. xli. a dearth upon the land: and destroyed all the provision of bread.

17 But he had fent a man Gen. xlv. before them even Jofeph,

who was fold to be a bond-fervant;

18 Whofe feet they hurt in the stocks: [the * iron entred into his foul;]

18 Iron, that is, Sword, which is a way of speaking usual in all Languages. Here, by

a further Figure, it is put for the flandering Tongue of Joseph's

Miftrefs: As likewife Pfal. lv. 22.

[The falfe Accufation of his Miftrefs cut him to the very Heart.]

19 Until the time came that his cause was known: [the word of the Lord tried him.

Gen. xl, xli.

19 [The interpreting of Pharaoh's, and the Baker and Butler's

Dream, purged him from all Sufpicion of the Crime which he was charged with; for this Revelation from God, or Word of God, was a demonftration to Pharaoh, that he who had it was a chafte and vertuous Perfon.]